“The most evident and original manifestation of Paleosardic creativity, nuragic architecture, could easily appear – and so it often seemed in the recent past – as a miraculous and mysterious event: almost a tropical constructive efflorescence, suddenly arisen without precedent and died without heirs, leaving its gigantic and countless ruins as a testament to a legendary age. The most intimate causes of the phenomenon, considered from the perspective of its exceptional grandeur and extent and the human effort it represents as a mute yet eloquent document, remain indeed today an unsolved problem. But the advances in archaeological research allow us, at the current state of our studies, to clarify at least its historical-chronological setting and its position in the general development of primitive Mediterranean architecture, through a series of comparisons that serve to illuminate, sometimes in glimpses, sometimes fully, many structural and formal characteristics of nuragic building…”
Excerpt from “La Sardegna Nuragica” by Massimo Pallottino. Publication curated by Giovanni Lilliu for Edizioni Ilisso – year 2000.
In the photos, the nuraghi: Arrubiu di Orroli (Andrea Mura-Nuragando Sardegna); Serbissi di Osini (Lucia Corda); Loschiri di Semestene and Adoni di Villanovatulo (Giovanni Sotgiu); Genna ‘e Corte di Laconi (Bibi Pinna); Ponte di Dualchi (Gianni Sirigu); Santa Barbara di Sindia (Sergio Melis).
